The 4th of July

We had such a busy 4th weekend.  Friday morning our friends, the Westers, asked us to join them at a Colorado Rockies game.  He had been given some great tickets from someone at work.  My parents generously watched the boys (they had hoped to go to that game- thanks Mom and Dad!) and we got to go!  The seats were perfect- way better than I've ever had before.  We were just 4 rows up from the opposing team's dugout.  I'm not a huge baseball fan (I usually think it is too slow and don't have the attention span to watch much), but I really enjoyed the game.  After the show they had fireworks, which were amazing.  What a fun surprise date!

Saturday we spent running errands, exercising, and cleaning the house.  Fun, right?  But necessary...  Sunday we went to church, had a BBQ with my parents, then headed out to Erie with our same friends to watch the fireworks.  It is where we watched them last year, out on a golf course.  We sat next to the club house where they blasted music, and the kids had a great time dancing.  Austin loves music and dancing, and hardly stopped for hours.  I was a little worried how Austin would do with the fireworks (last year he screamed!).  He was SO tired and is not good at staying up past bedtime (7/8pm) so he was really wiggly and whiney towards the end.  He actually liked the fireworks, but was too tired to enjoy them much. 

Zach and Kira watched at least half of the fireworks in our stroller together.

Austin was up bright and early Monday morning at 5am, so he and I went on a nice long walk.  We hadn't really planned on going to Superior's parade, but decided that since we were up we would walk down and see it.  Zach took awhile to wake up, but then enjoyed seeing the parade- it was his first!  He liked the firetrucks and the Captain America float.  After the parade we walked over to the town's pancake breakfast.  It was so hot, but I'm glad we went. 

And, as if that wasn't enough for the weekend, we hosted a BBQ with some friends and had a fun evening and lots of yummy food, including homemade chocolate ice cream.  

It may or may not have taken us a few days to recover...

We are grateful for our wonderful family and friends and for our freedoms!